Browsing Publications by Subject "Corruption"
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Business Climate Surveys: Experiences from Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa
(U4 Brief 2008:4, Report, 2008-02-01)Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. Partner governments and donor organisations alike have started to focus more ... -
Certified integrity? Forest certification and anti-corruption
(U4 Issue 2013:1, Research report, 2013-01-22)Forest certification schemes regulate forest exploitation and trade across many countries. In the absence of a multilateral agreement on limiting deforestation, they provide rules to balance the social, economic and ... -
Citizens Demand Tougher Action on Corruption
(REPOA Brief 11, Research report, 2008-05-10)This brief examines the extent of corruption perceived by residents of six councils in Tanzania; identifying the sectors worst affected. It also presents recommendations on measures to address local corruption based upon ... -
Civil society monitoring in the health sector. The Partnership for Transparency Fund’s work to ensure clean procurement and quality service provision
(U4 Practice Insight 2022:1, Report, 2022-10-01)For successful engagement with and effective monitoring of the health sector, it is important to select the right partner, work closely with communities and authorities, and consider the most appropriate project design and ... -
Combating Corruption in the Revenue Service: The Case of VAT Refunds in Bolivia
(U4 Brief 2008:14, Report, 2008-05-21)A recent and relatively successful anti-corruption strategy on value added tax refunds conducted in Bolivia, applied a process flow approach that appears to be powerful in preventing corruption in tax administration. This ... -
Combating corruption: A transparency index for donors?
(Development Today vol. 9 no. 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1999-01-01)For decades the international donor community has turned a blind eye to corruption in developing countries. This attitude appears to have changed. There is now a remarkable consensus among aid organisations on the importance ... -
Community-based natural resource management as a good governance and anti-corruption method: Lessons from Madagascar
(U4 Issue 2023:4, Research report, 2023-06-01)In Madagascar, high-level corruption can undermine local efforts to save the island’s threatened ecosystems. Communities need better participation and improved trust in conservation organisations. -
Competition and corruption. What can the donor community do?
(U4 Brief 2007:8, Report, 2007-10-09)This Brief discusses how corruption might threaten the benefits of competition in a market. Corruption can result in too much market power for some firms and thus increase prices and negatively influence the supply of goods ... -
Confronting corruption in humanitarian aid: Perspectives and options
(U4 Brief 2009:3, Report, 2009-03-26)Humanitarian crises that call for international assistance almost always take place in countries that either can’t or won’t meet the needs of their population at risk. Vulnerable environments, poverty, and poor governance ... -
Coping with corruption: Small and medium enterprises in Ghana
(U4 Brief 2022:2, Report, 2022-06-01)Small firms seem to be more compliant when exposed to international standards and regulations as partners to multinationals. -
Corruption and Aid Modalities
(U4 Issue 2008:4, Research report, 2008-08-01)The introduction of ‘new' aid modalities - and in particular general budget support - has increased the interest in the relationship between corruption and aid modalities. This U4 Issue reviews the information that theory ... -
Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Environmental and Resource Management
(Annual Review of Environment and Resources vol. 45, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-01)Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource management (ERM) sectors are less well understood. We review ... -
Corruption and Commercial Fisheries in Africa
(U4 Brief 2008:23, Report, 2008-12-05)Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence on revenues and investments from foreign countries, as well as ... -
Corruption and doing business in Serbia
(U4 Brief 2007:11, Report, 2007-10-09)Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up 99% of Serbian companies, employing 53% of the working population, this is ... -
Corruption and Forest Revenues in Papua
(U4 Brief 2008:18, Report, 2008-06-05)Under a sustainable, well-managed, logging regime, Papua - the most densely forested part of Indonesia - can potentially contribute substantial forest revenues for socio-economic development. Yet, it remains the poorest ... -
Corruption and Fraud in International Aid Projects
(U4 Brief 2007:4, Report, 2007-10-05)By probing projects in many different sectors and differing contexts it has been possible to find some striking similarities in terms of how fraud is taking place. This brief describes corruption and fraud schemes encountered ... -
Corruption and Industrial Fishing in Africa
(U4 Issue 2008:7, Research report, 2008-12-05)Africa's marine resources are increasingly in demand and are gaining in geopolitical importance. Competition between key fishing nations for access and control over marine resources is joined by competition between local ... -
Corruption and Other Leakages
(Conference object, 2014-09-19)Natural resource charter 2014 Conference : “Strengthening Resource Governance: Policy and the Application of Measurement” RWI-NRC is delighted to present this year’s Natural Resource Charter Conference: “Strengthening ... -
Corruption and water governance in the Mekong River Basin
(U4 Issue 2022:12, Research report, 2022-10-01)The six countries sharing the Mekong River Basin have governance systems that reinforce corrupt behaviour. This affects choices for regional cooperation on natural resource governance. -
Corruption definitions and their implications for targeting natural resource corruption
(Report, 2021-08-01)This Brief addresses how understandings of corruption have changed over time, particularly focusing on the practical implications of definitions for how we address corruption. It provides conservation and NRM practitioners ...